Text Tuesdays – New Prose – “…on my mind”

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2018, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, California, Chapel Hill, Georgia, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, New York, North Carolina, poetry, Prose, Sacramento, Text Tuesdays, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

We met as children,
Red clay on our hands,
Brown sun burned bodies,
Smiles as we watched long days…
Melt into southern sunsets,

With time I got older,
I yearned to leave,
My Mom didn’t like you,
The taste of peaches,
I remembered on my lips,

I went home,
Where I felt right,
Sometimes I missed you,
But I didn’t think of you often,
I gave up Peaches for Apples,

Text Tuesdays – New Prose – “When”

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Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Georgia, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Poem, Poet, poetry, Prose, Sacramento, Text Tuesdays, When

When I think of where I am,
I look up to know you see the same sun in the sky,
When the world becomes unexplainable,
I look up to know you see the same sun in the sky,

Foto Fridays – Sunrise in Atlanta

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Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Foto Friday, Foto Fridays, Georgia, Instagram, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Poem, Poet, poetry, Prose, Sacramento, Sun, Sunrise

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – De La Soul – “I Am I Be”

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1993, alternative hip hop, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, Buhloone Mindstate, California, Chicago, Dave, David Jude Jolicoeur, De La Soul, DJ, Eddie Harris, Georgia, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, I Am I Be, Illinois, James Edward Pryor, James Willis Ponder, Jefferson Starship, Jimmy Ponder, Keep Your Fat Mouth Out of My Business, Kelvin Mercer, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Lambert, Long Island, Los Angeles, Lou Rawls, Maceo Parker, Maseo, Miracles, Mississippi, music, Native Tongues, New York, New York City, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Plug 1, Plug 2, Poem, Poet, poetry, Posdnuos, Producer, Prose, Rapper, Sacramento, San Francisco, Shades of Brown, Shortie No Mass, Snooky Pryor, Terressa Thompson, The Bronx, The Next Band – Music: Brother Soul Pt. 1, The Soil I Tilled for You, Tommy Boy, Trugoy The Dove, Vincent Lamont Mason Jr, Vocal, Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Records, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, You've Made Me So Very Happy

[Verse 1]
I am Posdnous
I be the new generation of slaves
here to make papes to buy a record exec rakes
the pile of revenue I create
But I guess I don’t get a cut cuz my rent’s a month late
Product of a North Carolina cat
who scratched the back of a pretty woman named Hattie
Who departed life just a little too soon
and didn’t see me grab the Plug Tune fame
As we go a little somethin’ like this
look ma, no protection

Text Tuesdays – New Prose – “Seen”

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Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Georgia, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Poem, Poet, poetry, Prose, Sacramento, Text Tuesdays

The love that I had the presence to see,
The genuine regard,
Unspoiled love,
Protection of their world,
To see that joyous smile,

Text Tuesdays -New Prose – “Musings”

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Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Georgia, iPhone, iPhone 6, iPhoneography, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Los Angeles, Love, Poem, Poet, poetry, Prose, Sacramento, Text Tuesdays, Touch

10/25/16
The…

Glance of your eyes,
Touch of your voice,

Text Tuesdays – New Prose – “Awesome”

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Arizona, Atlanta, Awesome, Baby, Big Apple, Birthday, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Child, Citi Field, Coachella, Coachella Festival, Coachella Valley, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Georgia, Girl, Girlfriend, Governors Ball, Hawaii, Kauai, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Las Vegas, Love, Mother, Nevada, New York, New York City, Outside Lands, Outside Lands Festival, Outside Lands Music and Art Festival, Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, Outside Lands Music Festival, Phoenix, Poem, Poet, poetry, Prince, Prince Rogers Nelson, Princeville, Prose, Purple Rain, Randall Island, Sacramento, San Francisco, Sleep, Text Tuesdays, The Meadows, Toddler, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, Wake

10/11/16
I wake up,
We had an awesome choice to make,
On my mind in an arid municipality,
In the shadow of Portman western architecture,
In a lofty position amidst the empire peach of the south,
Looking down across a familiar terrain,

Text Tuesdays – New Prose – “What…”

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Age, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Georgia, Growth, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Kiss, Love, MW, North Carolina, Poem, Poet, poetry, Prose, Sacramento, San Francisco, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Youth

10/11/16
What is love,
I remember being enamored,
Idealistic thoughts of your youthful beauty,
Wondering what it was for your touch,

Text Tuesdays – New Prose – “My Skin, My Only Sin”

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Atlanta, Black Lives Matter, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Charlotte, Death, Georgia, Keith Lamont Scott, Keith Scott, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Murder, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Poem, poetry, Police, Prose, Sacramento, Terence Crutcher, Text Tuesdays, The Village at College Downs, Tulsa, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, University City, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

It was all met by your hands,
Your lack of decency,
Your lack of regard,
Your lack of training,
Your lack of humanity,

Now tears are wasted by:
My mother,
My father,
My wife,
The despicable person you are,

Text Tuesdays – New Prose – “My Lament”

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Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Father, Georgia, Harlem, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Life, New York, New York City, Poem, poetry, Prose, Sacramento, Son, Text Tuesdays

7/28/16
So eager to have what we think we need,
Based on emotion and no thought,
You always felt it unheeded,
The qualities it brought,
But it created confusion,
I watched you age before my eyes,
Your youth and strength diminished,
I struggle now each day, because,